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| Jean Rostand
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god. Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. |
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